By Aly Kamadia, Editor-In-Chief, iDose
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Dear Readers,
Six days separate us from Tuesday November 3rd, 2020, while today’s iDose issue marks the final one before ‘election day’ in America.
‘Election day’ is in quotes because it is likely that neither Joe Biden nor Donald Trump will concede and admit defeat next Tuesday or Wednesday (a reality I have noted on many occasions).
With few exceptions, it is astonishing that mainstream media outlets have hardly educated Americans on this fact in the past few weeks (Chris Hayes of MSNBC is an example of an exception, who has provided insightful coverage on the topic).
Equally astounding is the fact that almost 70 million Americans have already voted (for some context, roughly 127 million Americans voted in total in the 2016 election).
As of October 27th, Nate Silver’s organization (FiveThirtyEight) gives Biden an 88 in 100 chance of winning. The New York Times declares Biden to have a very slight electoral upper hand, 280-258 (i.e. 270 is needed to win), if state polling is as wrong as it was in 2016. The Economist magazine gives Biden a 19 in 20 chance of winning.
Indeed, most credible public polling paints a picture in which Joe Biden is about to land a knock-out punch on Trump’s orange face.
Though when we take a step back, the politics reveal another angle of a larger portrait: that of Mitch McConnel and his goons kidnapping the game’s referee.
For months, the Republican party has been preparing to exploit and overwhelm Americans with confusion, as they use a variety of tactics to try to steal the election from Biden even if he wins it fairly. Of course, any such efforts become increasingly challenging with a more decisive Biden victory.
iDose will publish its next issue based on how the politics begin to play out on ‘election night’. Meaning readers should not necessarily expect us to publish on Wednesday as usual.
Rather, newsletter subscribers will be alerted on the afternoon (likely next week) when we publish our next issue.
Until then, if you’re American, make sure you, your friends and your entire family vote.
Fingers crossed.
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